Combining Metrics for Mesh Simplification and Parameterization

A mesh simplification strategy for generating polygonal meshes with well-shaped faces in the presence of constraints. This sketch introduces a novel combination of metrics to drive the simplification process.

Jordan Smith
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
smithpj (at) us.ibm.com

Ioana Boier-Martin
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Streaming Compression of Triangle Meshes

This radical departure from the traditional approach to mesh compression proposes a scheme that incrementally encodes a mesh in the order vertices and triangles are given to the compressor.

Martin Isenburg
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
isenburg (at) cs.unc.edu

Peter Lindstrom
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Jack Snoeyink
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Predictive Point-Cloud Compression

A single-resolution compression technique for point clouds that can exploit fine-scale structures as they arise in 3D scans and resampled data.